Michael Ferreira of Salem, N.H., was cleared Friday by a Middlesex Superior Court jury. Prosecutors say the 59-year-old Ferreira and two friends killed 15-year-old John McCabe after a dance in Tewksbury, Mass., in September 1969. Ferreira was 16 at the time.

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PORTSMOUTH — The city is in the running to become part of a new Monopoly game board, if enough people vote for Portsmouth in the Monopoly 'Here and Now' campaign as part of Hasbro's 80th anniversary celebration of the iconic board game.

Popular early U.S. tales depicted Muslims as menacing figures in faraway lands or cardboard moral paragons.In 1810, for instance, the New Hampshire Patriot ran a story called 'Mohammedan Forbearance,' depicting a Muslim caliph as a model of faith and morality.

In a written media statement, police said that arrest of Kimberlee O'Riordan took place February 21 at 12:30 p.m. and that she told police she had consumed an unknown number of bottles of vanilla extract.